Climate Pulse

This Premier League season has been as predictable as a Steve Harmison delivery. Straight as a die one day, all over the place the next. It's difficult to say whose fans should feel most aggrieved. Apart, obviously, from the Fratton Park regulars, whose club is being treated like some shabby... [continue]

If you're the kind of person who likes looking at pictures of data centres - and my guess is if you're reading this you might be - then you should head straight for this latest blog post on the BBC's Research and Development blog. Ant Miller says: We've just received some pretty cool images from... [continue]

Readers of this column will be well aware that the measures taken by the British government to prop up the banking system and limit the depth of our recession were an emergency life-saving procedure - and that they created all sorts of dependency problems for the British economy that will take years... [continue]

Greenpeace Czech posted a photo: Up to 100,000 people take part in the climate demonstration on the Global Day of Action in Copenhagen. The activity is part of Global Day of Action activities worldwide, directed at world leaders gathered at the on going United Nations Climate Change Summit in... [continue]

As the climate change summit meeting moves forward in Copenhagen, it is increasingly clear that more than just the environment is at stake. The global environmental crisis is at the heart of practically all the problems now confronting us, including the need to create a global economic model... [continue]

Ice carvings, electric cars and arriving activists kick off day five on the Copenhagen climate change conference [continue]

G77 asks Obama to join fight against climate change: Copenhagen: As US President Barack Obama received his Nobe.. http://bit.ly/4nf4n8 [continue]

My presentation at Applied Brilliance today was a quick version of my Innovation from Constraint talk, a talk that makes the argument that some of the best design ideas come from facing the constraints provided by material circumstance. Using a whole mess of examples stolen from Afrigadget, the talk... [continue]

A review of 400 major climate studies published since the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that the world is warming more rapidly than the panel’s mainstream projections and concludes that the rapid buildup of greenhouse gases “has most likely committed... [continue]

Today is blog action day and the topic is climate change. Last week I was at a conference and had a marvelous time. At the conference they gave us USB sticks with all the conference information on them. Considering the number of full ... [continue]